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The Kbin Experience. The Best Worst Way to Interact with the Fediverse. (roundcatsblog.wordpress.com)
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A blogpost I made about my experience on Kbin. Any feedback would be appreciated as someone who is new to blogging. Thank you

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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

and the developers of lemmy added a sneaky thing that would specifically block kbin user agents from being able to federate out to lemmy instances, leading to constant error logs and issues.

Do you happen to know why they did it? Was it that kbin was causing them technical problems somehow and they chose to block it until they are resolved or was it just pettiness?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

IIRC the official reason was that some automated anti-spam code accidentally caught the kbin user agent and mistakenly added it to a block list, and the lemmy.ml admins were busy and didn't see it for over a week - but once one of them noticed it was promptly fixed.

Also, I recall this being specific to lemmy.ml - other instances run by other admins like lemmy.world and lemmy.ca weren't affected.